Drivers start your engines! The 2015 NASCAR Season starts today with the 57th running of the Daytona 500. Actor Vince Vaughn will be the honorary Grand Marshall who will give the drivers the command signal to fire up their engines at 1:19 p.m., and wave the Green Flag at 1:31 p.m. The 2015 Daytona 500 has some great NASCAR story-lines, some of these story-lines include: 1) Today’s Daytona 500 marks the last Daytona 500 for Jeff Gordon who will be retiring after this season. 2) No Busch brothers (Kyle & Kurt Busch) will be in the Daytona 500 today, Kyle is out with a broken leg sustained in the XFINITY Series race at Daytona last night, and Kurt Busch was suspended by NASCAR on Friday; a Busch brother has been in every Daytona 500 since 2001. 3) NASCAR Camping World Truck Series driver, Matt Crafton, will be filling in for the injured Kyle Busch today. This is Crafton’s first career Sprint Cup Series race, Crafton holds the record for the most consecutive Truck Series starts by an active driver. 4) Tony Stewart is 0-16 in tries of winning the Daytona 500, in fact, his first career NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race was the 1999 Daytona 500. 5) Dale Earnhardt Jr. is looking to win back-to-back Daytona 500 races; this hasn’t happened since Sterling Marlin in 1994 and 1995. I will be providing coverage for 2015 NASCAR Season, with pre-race reports, and post-race reports as well. With that being said here is my 2015 Daytona 500 pre-race report, let me know what you think in the comment section below. Be sure to follow my live Daytona 500 coverage on my Twitter (@TrentA_Brinkley) starting on 1pm.

Miscellaneous Daytona 500 Stats:

– Only 3 Drivers have won two consecutive Daytona 500 victories

– Only 7 Daytona 500 Winners have won the race from the Pole Position

– Only 7 Drivers have had their 1st Career Win at the Daytona 500

– Chevy has the most Daytona 500 wins with 23, and Ford has the second most with 13